A02178:4827
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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18 That it should be changed once it was meet, but never to be changed again: for as1 then the day of rest for the creation was most fit; so now the day of our redemption is most fit, seeing now the world is as if it were made new, and therefore cannot be changed.
18 That it should be changed once it was meet, but neuer to be changed againe: for as1 then the day of rest for the creation was most fit; so now the day of our redemption is most fit, seeing now the world is as if it were made new, and therefore cannot be changed.
- 1The Lords day.
19 Then they could not kindle fire, which we do, therefore it was ceremonial. First,1 some think that commandment was but for time of the wilderness. Secondly, the Jews in every commandment had something ceremonial, which we have not now being in CHRIST. As in the second commandment, we are to read, and teach the word of God, it belongeth to us as well as to them, but to have frontlets we are not bound. So of singing, we are bound to have singing as well as the Jews, but yet not with Organs and such like. So of burying the dead, we are as straitly charged to do it as the Jews, yet not with ointments, and such cost as they were at. So in every commandment they had some thing pedagogical which is taken away; but the commandment it self, is more strictly required of us then of them, because it is more clearly set forth to us then to them.
19 Then they could not kindle fire, which we doe, therefore it was ceremoniall. First,1